This is going to be a fun post that’s related to some of my password work. Some of the text may not be PG13, so parental discretion is advised.
As most of you know, I’ve been collecting password lists. In addition to normal password lists that are useful in bruteforcing, I have a (so far) lame collection of non-hacking dictionaries. Things like cities, English words, etc.
There was a time when the biggest dictionary I had, weighing in at 6.4mb, was a German wordlist. 6.4mb doesn’t sound like much, but at the time I was on a DSL connection; with about 400kbit upstream (on a good day), I could feel every download.
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The ultimate faceoff between password lists
Yes, I’m still working on making the ultimate password list. And I don’t mean the 16gb one I made by taking pretty much every word or word-looking string on the Internet when I was a kid; that was called ultimater dictionary. No; I mean one that is streamlined, sorted, and will make Nmap the bruteforce tool of the future!
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Trusting the Browser (a ckeditor short story)
My name is Matt Gardenghi. Ron seems to think it important that this post be clearly attributed to someone else (this fact might worry me). I’m an occasional contributor here (see: Bypassing AV). I handle security at Bob Jones University and also perform pentests on the side. (So if you need someone to do work, here’s my shameless plug.) I have acquired the oddly despised CISSP and the more respectable GCFA, GPEN, and GWAPT.
I know a company that purchased some Web 2.0 services. We’ll leave it at that, to protect the guilty. :-p
So, one day a bored user decided that the editor used on the site was annoying. He used GreaseMonkey to replace the editor with his preferred editor. This was “Clue #1” that a problem existed with the Web 2.0 service.
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Using Nmap to detect the Arucer (ie, Energizer) Trojan
Hey,
I don’t usually write two posts in one day, but today is a special occasion! I was reading my news feeds (well, my co-op student (ie, intern) was – I was doing paperwork), and noticed a story about a remote backdoor being included with the Energizer UsbCharger software</a>. Too funny!
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Hard evidence that people suck at passwords
Hey everybody!
As you probably know, I’ve been working hard on generating and evaluating passwords. My last post was all about Rockyou.com’s passwords; next post will (probably) be about different groups of passwords from my just updated password dictionaries page. This will be a little different, though.
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How big is the ideal dick…tionary?
Hey all,
As some of you know, I’ve been working on collecting leaked passwords/other dictionaries. I spent some time this week updating my wiki’s password page. Check it out and let me know what I’m missing, and I’ll go ahead and mirror it.
I’ve had a couple new developments in my password list, though. Besides having an entirely new layout, I’ve added some really cool data!
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DNS Backdoors with dnscat
Hey all,
I’m really excited to announce the first release of a tool I’ve put a lot of hard work into: dnscat.
It’s being released, along with a bunch of other tools that I’ll be blogging about, as part of nbtool 0.04.
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Site changes
Hey all,
Just a quick note – I updated my blog template a bit. On the right, I added some new links and I added some info about myself at the top. I also added “previous” and “next” links above the posts. Hopefully these changes make it easier to get around. Let me know if I broke anything in the process!
That’s all for today!
Ron
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